Courtesy Treehugger writer Jesse Fox, we bring this interview with Stacey Frost of Urban Re:Vision. “A block is to the city as a cell is to the human body.” Stacey Frost is an interesting woman, to say the least. When this former cattle rancher, neuropsychologist and options trader decided to focus on renovating historical buildings, [...]
Sensible City’s social media philosophy has always encouraged “measurable, meaningful and consistent dialogue across a broad community platform.” It is in pursuit of this goal that we heavily encourage video dialogue (as opposed to marketing flashies) as an integral part of each communications platform. Out of over 600 posted last year, the following videos received [...]
From the Dallas Observer: We’ve seen plenty of conceptual renderings of the Re:Vision Dallas finalists, but this morning, North Carolina-based Little Diversified Architectural Consulting provides us with a very impressive video showcasing their self-sustaining downtown block, The Entangled Bank. Should Central Dallas Community Development Corporation and bcWORKSHOP proceed with this project — which envisions a [...]
Conveniently timed to take place one day before the kickoff of Ecobuild Emirates, TEDx Dubai has hit the radar. Organized by Giorgio Ungania (an Apple Distinguished Educator and Marketing Manager for SAE) and James Piecowye (DubaiEye host and professor at Zayed University), the Dubai event appears to be organizing as one of the more visible, regionally/globally [...]
Green-Buildings.Com, the green building and education service, reviewed Re: Vision Dallas’ ECOBlOCK entry from the firm ODA in New York City. Inspired by the basic elements of wind, water, earth and sun, ECOBLOCK focuses on the aspect of creating a community. ODA did not win the competition, but they submitted a very interesting concept that [...]
ArchDaily featured Re:Vision Dallas honorable mention “Commonwealth” in their latest article. Below is an excerpt – click to read the full article. We have been featuring several Re:Vision Dallas entries because the competition has attracted forward thinking designers with solutions we’d like to share. The newest submission from PIKL Studio won an honorable mention for their [...]
Over the last few weeks Sensible City has been putting Re: Vision Dallas and Urban Revision in the ears, eyes and minds of the most popular and influential blogs, media portals and news services. A big idea loves hard work and together we’ve helped spread the world for Urban Revision online. The following is a list of some of our favorite [...]
Urban Re:Vision’s Re: Vision Dallas design competition is currently being featured on Treehugger, an online information hub dedicated to bringing sustainability to the mainstream. Jesse Fox, writing in the “Design & Architecture” section, showcases the 3 winners of the competition and hints that similar areas in Dallas may be next for a revision of their [...]
Hat tip to Cameron Sinclair: It’s enough to make a San Franciscans choke on their morning bowl of organic hand-rolled granola but Dallas, the new home town of President Bush, is developing the greenest city block in America through a competition called Re:Vision Dallas. The competition is the brainchild of Urban Re:Vision, founded by Stacey Frost, and is the sixth [...]
Soon, a single block will be transformed into a place that creates economies, supports community, facilitates relationships and generates resources. The winners of Re:Vision Dallas have created plans that challenged us, engaged us and inspired us. And their ideas, from local materials and vegetated screens to integrated greenways, will shape how people will live and [...]
On December 5, our allies at Urban Re:Vision joined forces with the City of Dallas, Texas to host a planning session for an incredibly ambitious green building project. The day-long charrette brought together city officials, urban planners, master architects and green building experts in anticipation of a truly visionary project: the creation of a [...]
WMNF was kind enough to host Tim Center, Director of Sustainable Florida with the Collins Center for Public Policy, to discuss the Green Cities Conference in Orlando. Read more here or stream the MP3 audio below.
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